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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 15, 2002Ford County, Hodgeman County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2002, 4:54 PM CDT for Ford County, Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 2002, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 2002, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Ford County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 15, 5:03 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 56 MDodge City, KS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 17 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2002-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2002-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 274 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1746 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
274 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
370 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 152154
SVRDDC
KSC057-083-152245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
454 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS
  SOUTHERN HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 454 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOWELL...OR ABOUT 5 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF CIMARRON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  DODGE CITY AT 500 PM CDT
  FT DODGE AT 505 PM CDT
  WRIGHT AT 515 PM CDT
  SPEARVILLE AT 540 PM CDT
  JETMORE AT 545 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,

FOR YOUR SAFETY SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

LAT...LON 3789 10021 3769 10020 3768 9957 3812 9958
          3813 10020

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.